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CBC Books recommends Trust the Bluer Skies for Father’s Day
Being a father can be both a challenging and rewarding part of life, shaped by their own experiences and parents. This Father’s Day (June 16 2024), check out 20 Canadian books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and more that share the stories of fathers and father-like figures. Head to cbcbook.ca for more.
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New essay in Reckoning 6
Check out my new essay in this amazing USA based publication focusing on themes of environmental justice. Reckoning 6 Reckoning 6 – Print Edition Preorder $20.00 Add to cart Reckoning 6, edited by Aïcha Martine Thiam and Gabriela Santiago, addresses the intersection between social upheaval and environmental change. “[I]t’s like a brief closing of the hand around something small and floating, framing it just long enough that we are able to look, really look at it. And then, if we can, we let it go.”—Aïcha Martine Thiam “It is not utopia. But it is what we can have, these careful negotiations, communications, challenges, and sharing. We have relationships. New, complicated,…
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2025 Author in Residence @ AWC
2025 Writer in Residence: paulo da costa Born in Angola, and raised in Portugal, paulo da costa is a writer, editor and translator living in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies (Moh’kins’tsis / Calgary, Alberta). He is thrice the recipient of the James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction (2024, 2023 and 2020), the 2024 Outstanding Calgary Artist Award, as well as the 2003 Commonwealth First Book Prize for the Canada-Caribbean Region, the W. O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize and the Canongate Prize for short-fiction. His poetry, fiction and non-fiction have been published widely in literary magazines around the world and translated into Italian, Spanish, Serbian, Slovenian and…
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4 poemas na diVersos n.º 38
Com diversos outros motivos de interesse, o n.º 38 da série DiVersos – Poesia e Tradução destaca em capa uma antologia de 40 páginas do poeta brasileiro Dante Milano (1899-1991), pouco conhecido em Portugal (e também no Brasil!), um dos maiores poetas brasileiros do século XX. Dele disse o poeta Carlos Drummond de Andrade, esse bem conhecido em ambos os lados do Atlântico: ««A popularidade nada tem a ver com a poesia. A popularidade pode acontecer. Mas um grande poeta pode também passar despercebido. Temos um poeta de quase noventa anos que mora em Petrópolis e ninguém o conhece. Ele é da geração modernista, um grandíssimo poeta. Chama-se Dante Milano.…
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Al Berto – Four poems in translation
Al Berto was the pseudonym used by the Portuguese poet, painter, editor and cultural programmer Alberto Raposo Pidwell Tavares (January 11, 1948 – June 13, 1997). You were still young Al Berto translated by paulo da costa (Published in Matrix 60, 2000) i search for you amidst the written papers tossed to the bottom of the glass armoire you were eating grapes in the middle of the page next it was as if it were night there were exchanged glances bodies meanderings thorough the beach it was night and someone approached i run my fingers on the fresh wine stains on the table the notebook where once in a while…
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José Tolentino Mendonça – three poems in translation
José Tolentino Mendonça (n. 1965) is one of the most original voices of Portuguese contemporary literature. He is also an Archivist and Librarian at the Vatican Library. Freesias José Tolentino Mendonça translated by paulo da costa ( Published in Matrix n. 60 – 2001 ) Freesias are flowers smelling of tea and she, at thirty seven, prefers them to the flowers sold everywhere she conceded the beauty yet not the splendour because repetitions are sad suddenly become ways of knowing and she, at thirty-seven, simply held dear the secrets which though revealed remain secrets (in certain seasons, through some forgotten door she escaped, sleep-walking, into the courtyard leading to the woods…
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Writer-in-Residence for SWG in February 6-9, 2025
The Saskatchewan Writers Guild is pleased to announce paulo da costa as the Virtual Writer-in-Residence for our Virtual Facilitated Retreat, happening on February 6-9, 2025. Born in Angola, and raised in Portugal, paulo da costa is a writer, editor and translator living in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies (Moh’kins’tsis / Calgary, Alberta). He is thrice the recipient of the James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction (2024, 2023 and 2020), the 2024 Outstanding Calgary Artist Award, as well as the 2003 Commonwealth First Book Prize for the Canada-Caribbean Region, the W. O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize and the Canongate Prize for short-fiction. His poetry, fiction and non-fiction…
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2024 Outstanding Calgary Artist Award
I had an incredible October evening at the Jack Singer Concert Hall. Calgary honoured me with the 2024 Outstanding Calgary Artist Award. It was memorable!!! Thank you to Louis and Doug Mitchell, the Banff Center for the Arts, CADA and the City of Calgary and our creative arts community for awarding me this hugely meaningful honour. And thank you to the jury for having recognized my work of letters among the many outstanding artists in all disciplines in our city. I am humbled and accept this award on behalf of all of those who are continuously making contributions to the quality of life of our citizens, and making their mark…
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Calgary Public Library’s Author in Residence
Introducing Calgary Public Library’s 2024 Author in Residence paulo da costa! As a well-versed author, paulo da costa has had poetry, fiction, and non-fiction pieces published in literary magazines around the world. He is a writer, editor, and translator, with accolades including being a three-time recipient of the James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction. Learn more about his residency by visiting: https://bit.ly/3TGsHUl
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Free the Caged Melros: A Review of trust the bluer skies in Prism International – by Irene Marques
Check out this insightful and in-depth review of Trust the Bluer Skies featured in Prism International Magazine out of UBC and Vancouver. Available to be read on their website. When was the last time you read a thoughtful review that was 1600 words long? My gratitude to Toronto scholar, Irene Marques, who for years has been a phenomenal supporter of my writing and of my books. Bem hajas. Excerpt of review : “Portuguese cultural traditions of bullfighting and other forms of animal cruelty are reprimanded. The idea that such traditions should be defended because they are part of national identity is refuted…” Full review in the link below. https://prismmagazine.ca/…/free-the-caged-melros-a… August…
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Interviewed by Prairie Books Now
Prairie Books Now just published an interview with me in their latest magazine issue. This issue can also be read on line or downloaded for free here : https://prairiebooksnow.ca/issues Thank you to PBN and Luis Reis for taking an interest in this book on Fatherhood. Enjoy. More great books and authors are also to be discovered in this issue of prairie based creatives. #trustthebluerskies #uofr_press #parenting #parents #luso #lusocanadian #portuguesecommunity #canlit #literature #bookbuzz #writersofinstagram #abwriters #bookrecommendations #bookreader #bookreview #bookstagram #books #booklover #bookaddict #booknerd #nonfictionbooks #memoir #lusobooks #portuguesecommunity #portuguesetraditions #portuguese #ancestry Trust the Bluer Skies Meditations on Fatherhood By paulo da costa Reviews “One man’s work to change the meaning of…
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Teaching / Mentoring Authors at Alexandra Writers’ Centre
I’ll be one of the Alexandra Writers’ Centre mentors for their 2025 Author Development Program (from January to June 2025). If you are working on a manuscript of Fiction (Flash, Short-stories or a Novel), Creative Non-Fiction (including Memoir) or Poetry, I would be happy to work with you under the auspices of this program. I am published in all those genres. Check the detail here : https://www.alexandrawriters.org/author-development-program.html https://www.alexandrawriters.org/author-development-program.html https://www.alexandrawriters.org/story-maker.html The AWC has subsidies and flexible payment options available if needed.
